| Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 pages
...Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown : Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death has reft their crown. s a. Her bloom was like the springing... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud, And clay-cold was her lily hand. That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown, Such is the robe that kings must wear. she raised her dim hand over Fingal, and turned away her silent eyes... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...Her face was like an April-morn, Clad in a wintery cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily hand, Thai held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown : Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death has reft their crown. Her bloom was like the springing... | |
| Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud: And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shrowd. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown : Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death has reft their crown. Her bloom was like the springing... | |
| Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 300 pages
...imbre dies ; Quaque sepulchralem a pedibus collegit amictum, Candidior nivibus, frigidiorque manu.s. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown ; Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death has reft their crown. Her bloom was like the springing... | |
| Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 228 pages
...April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily-hand, That held the sable shrowd. III. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown ; Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death lias reft their crown. .a THYRSIS ET CHLOE. nox tenebris,... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...like an April morn Clad in a wintry clond, And clay-cold was her lily hand That held her sable shrond. So shall the fairest face appear When youth and years are flown ; Such is the robe that kings must wear When Death has reft their crown. Her bloom was like the springing... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 414 pages
...feet. Her face was like an April morn Clad in a wintry cloud, And clay-cold was her lily hand That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown ; Such is the robe that kings must wear When death has reft their crown. Her bloom vras like the springing... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...Her face was like an April-morn, Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily-hand, That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are llown: Such is the robe that kings must wear, When Death has reft their crown. Her bloom was like the... | |
| Anna Seward - 1810 - 422 pages
...personal address, and from the grand image in the third line. Compare it with the stanza in the Ballad: " So shall the fairest face appear " When youth and years are flown, " And such the robe that kings must wear " When death has reft their crown." Here is no picture, and... | |
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